if you were or are the friendly gent (blue coat) who was in the shop half an hour ago and left a big jar of bees on the table in the poetry section, please come back and reclaim your jar of bees. if you aren't, please rt until

if you were or are the friendly gent (blue coat) who was in the shop half an hour ago and left a big jar of bees on the table in the poetry section, please come back and reclaim your jar of bees. if you aren't, please rt until we find him #FindTheBeeGent

I want to know what happened here. I so want to know what happened here.

]]>https://blog.o0.is/interesting-reading-this-week/5c5633a2eb53da00014accd1Sun, 03 Feb 2019 22:03:20 GMTMaybe I should come up with a metaphor (placeholder, really) for a weekly "things I thought were interesting"-post, like Bruce's squids. Well, that will come later. This week's interesting things:

Engadget published a long column about how today's (American) Internet companies are scared of sex, and how that is affecting the web. There are the obviuos effects -- it's getting harder to debate things like LGBTQ policy and sex work, backup sex education can't take place on the platforms where teens usually hang out, and art that includes sexuality and nudity is forced off the mainstream platforms. There are also less obvious effects -- a general fear of "dirty art", misogyny, and photos of potatoes aren't allowed on Instagram. (Really.)

So we tried to post the photo of this potato on Instagram. AND IT GOT CENSORED

No matter what the 2019-word is, my worst word from 2018 is "screen time". OK it's two words in English but still, the term sucks. "Is screen time bad for kids" is about as good a question to ask as "is water good for people" (yes, if drinking or swimming, no if drowning or being shot by a water cannon while protesting for human rights). Anyway it's now been proven in a scientific™ way exactly how bad screen time is for our mental health. Or how bad it is not. Click the potato below to find out.

(Potato will be inserted here, click link for article while potato is under construction)